Window assembly



Oct. 22, 1929. A, M THOMPSON 1,732,290

I REENF'ORCED CONCRETE FENCE POST Filed March 22, 1927 Oct. 22, 1929. TONCRAY 1,732,291

WINDOW AS SEMBLY Filed March 1926 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Oct. 22, 1929. M. H. TONCRAY WINDOW AS SEMBLY Filed March 6, 1926 3 Sheets-Sheet Patented 0a. 22, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE 1111mm 11. Torrent, or 'nnrnoir, MICHIGAN, assmnon 'ro HUDSON moron. can

COMPANY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION 01 IICHIGLN I wmnow ASSEMBLY Application filed larch 8, 1928. Serial No. 92,888

This invention relates to windows for closed automobile bodies and is in the nature of a modification of the invention disclosed and claimed in another application filed November 30, 1925, Serial No. 72,215.

I The invention has for its general object to provide an improved window construction whereby the assembly of the partsconstituting and associated with the window is facilitated and cheapened and the quality of the work improved. In commonwith that formin the subject matter of the application above re erred to, the present invention in its preferred form contemplatesv a construction wherein the window glass and the guides therefore may be assembled at the bench in the form of a sub-assembly which may thereafter he applied as a unit to the main body assembly, thereby saving time and space on the main assembly or trim line, and affording an increased convenience, accuracy of work,

and facility of inspection incidental to benchv assembly methods,-and also permitting the accurate relative location of the parts, thereby ensuring the proper fitting of the window glass in its guides. As distinguished from the construction described and claimed in said other application, the present invention contemplates a construction in which the several; parts or sub-assemblies which are applied to the body at the trim line are all relatively small, light, and simple, whereby their handling and application to the body are facilitated.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention, together with means whereby the latter may be carried into efiect, will best be understood from the following description of one form thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawings. It will be understood, however, that the particular construction described and shown has been chosen for purposes of exemplification merely, and that the invention, as defined by the claims hereunto appended, may be otherwise embodied without departure from the spirit and scope thereof.

In said drawings:

Fig. 1 is an elevation of the sub-assembly comprising the window guides and cross members. y f

Flgs. 2, 3 and dare enlarged detail sections taken substantially on the lines 22, 33 and 4- -4, respectively, Fig. 1.'

Fig. 5.is a view similar to Fig. 2' showing a glass run in place in a window guide.

Fig. 6 is-a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the window glass in place in the guides.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary interior view of the inside window frame showing the window header secured thereto. Fig. 11 is a view similarto Figs. 7 and 9 showing the complete window assembly in place.

Figs. 12 and 13 are enlarged detail sectional views taken substantially on the line 12-12 and 13-13, respectively, Fig. 11.

Fig. 14 is a vertical sectional view through the inside window frame andregulator board illustrating a modification.

The invention is hereinvshown as embodied in a quarter window assembly designed for use in connection with an automobile formed with inturned flanges 22 (see par:

ticularly Figs. 12 and 13) which terminate in portlons 23 lying in a plane substantially parallel with the plane of the paneling. Said panelling isalso formed or provided with an inset wheel house 24 and has securedthere- 'to certain uprights including a door post or include portions or flanges 30 adapted for attachment to the portions 23 of the side window flanges 22 and ortions 31 adapted to retain rubber or simi ar window glass runs 32 (Figs. 5 and 12) and clamp the latter against said flange portions 23. The cross member 28 carries a weather strip 33 and connects the window guides 27 intermediate their ends and at a level substantially opposite the bottom of the window opening 21 when the parts are in place. The cross member 29 connects the guides 27 at their lower ends. In practice, the guides 27 and cross members 28 and 29 are assembled at the bench and the ends of said cross members suitably secured to said guides, as by rivets 34. The parts may be enameled or otherwise finished either before or after they are assembled with each other, after which the glass runs 32 may be slipped into the guides 27 and the window glass 35, with a reinforcing channel 40 on the bottom edge thereof, inserted from the top. The cross members 28 and 29. hold the window guides 27 properly spaced and positioned and form a window sub-assembly which, with the window glass 35, may be inspected and tested for working fits before being carried to the main assembly or body trim line. This sub-assembly may then be applied to the body as shown in Fig. 7, the flanges of the guides 27 being secured to the portions 23 of thepanel window flanges 22 by bolts 36, and the cross member 28 being secured to the portion 23 of the-bottom window flange by bolts 37 which pass through holes 371 in said cross member. The window guides 27 extend below the side window flanges 22 but are connected and braced by the cross member 29. The window glass slides freely in the guides past the cross member 28 and weather strip 33 in engagement with the latter to open and close the window. l

After the placing of the window sub-ass the arm 39 engaged with the'channel 40 of the stantially parallel to the face of said frame.

At its ends or vertical edges, the frame 42 is formed with laterally extending flanges 45 formed with notches 46, (Fig. 11). A sheet metal retainer 47 for a rubber or other window header 48 may be secured either to the flange 44 at the top of the inside window frame as shown in Fig. 10,0r to the to outside panel flange 23 as shown in Fig. 9. T e inside.

Window frame 42 is put in place with the flanges 45 engaging the pillars 25 and 26 and is secured thereto together with suitable trim members by screws 49. The trim members comprise a windlace member 50 at the front of the window, and which as shown is of the construction more fully described in another application filed April 8, 1926, Serial N 0. 100,587, and a trim panel 51 and covering strip 52 at the rear of the window. The windlace member 50 is secured to the pillar 25 by the screws 49 which pass through the slots 46 in the forward window frame flange 45, thereby clamping said flange tightly to said pillar. The strip 52 is similarly secured to the pillar 26 by screws 49 which pass through the slots 6 in the rear window frame flange'45, thefe clamping".

said flange,-together with the forward edge of the quarter trim panel 51, securely to said pillar. At its lower edge the window frame 42 overlaps the regulator board 38 and is spaced therefrom a sufficient distance to receive the upper edge of a bottom trim panel 53, as shown in Fi 13.

Instead of a plying the regulator board and inside win ow frame to the main body assembly separately, as above described, the upper edge of the former may be secured, as by rivets 54 (Fig. 14) to the flange 44 at the bottom of the latter and the two thereafte secured in place as a unit.

The flange 44 at the bottom of the inside window frame may, if desired, be provided with an inside weather strip 33 similar to ihe outside weather strip 33, as shown in ig. 13. I

, While the assembly of the window guides with each other and with the window glass prior to their application to the body panel, as above described, is preferred, it may, in some instances, be desirable to assemble them in place by securing them to the panel flanges separately instead of in the form of a subassembly.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In an automobile body, in combination, a panel having a window opening and flanges at the sides of said opening, window guides secured to said flanges and extending beyond the same, and a cross member connecting the free ends of said guides.

2. In an automobile body, 1n combination, a panel having a window opening and flan es at the sides of said opening, window gui es secured to said flanges, a cross member connecting sai guides adjacent the bottom of said window opening, a weather strip carried by said cross member, and a window glass mounted to slide in said-guides past said weather strip.

3. In an automobile body, in combination, a panel having awindow opening and flanges at the sides and bottom of said opening, window guides secured to said side flanges, a cross member connecting said guides and secured to said bottom flange, a weather strip carried by said cross member, and awindow glass mounted to slide in said guides past said weather strip.

4. In an automobile body, the combination with body pillars and body paneling having a window opening, of a window guide assembly carried by said paneling independently of saidpillars, and a window frame carried by said illars independently of said paneling and aving an opening registering with the window opening in the latter.

5. In an automobile body, the combination with paneling havin a window opening, a window guide assem ly secured to and carried by said paneling, and a unitar window frame secured in place to said bo y enclosing said window guide assembly, and having an opening registering with the window opening in the paneling.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

' MILLARD H. TONCRAY. 

